photorealism?

Excellent presentation of an excellent theory. However, it would have added weight to the argument had they pointed out that the executor of Vermeer's estate, and obviously close friend, was Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who developed the first practical microscope and is considered the Father of Microbiology. He knew a lot about lenses and mirrors. Second, while Tim Jenison was able to faithfully copy a Vermeer, something no one else has ever been able to do, the repeated references to photography or photorealism are wrong. Vermeer has been called the Grandfather of Impressionism -- look at his paintings and you do not see photorealism. The floor tiles look like marble but the dark lines are squiggles, the street he paints in The Little Street are likewise squiggles. He creates images that are more realistic than photorealism for they look MORE like the real thing, and nobody understands why that is. His genius, if he was using the technique suggested, was that he did NOT paint exactly what his lenses/mirrors saw, and this film would have been greatly strengthened if they had explored this aspect.